Day 4

The other day we had the Ed Cafe discousions about the 1st amendment.In that class we went into further dept aout each peice of the first amendment, my part was the right to assembly, which gave people the right to be in a group and do what ever they want with no goverment interfeirence as long as nothing illegal was involved. Another right that i was very fasinated to hear more about was the freedom of press, one point brought up into discousion was how in the library they would have band books that you wouldn't be allowed to read or bring into class in elementry schools. With this situation we discoused about how the componies had the right to publish the books but how the school had the right to deny the books from entering in the school but we discoused that why should the compony be allowed to publish the book and a student not be allowed to bring it into school to read one day, it came down to the matter that the compony has the right to freedom of press and can write what ever they want, but shouldn't the student have the freedom of speech to say that they wanted to read that book in and indepentant reading. What you couldn't decide on weather the school was wrong or right to band these books because it may be a bit inapropreate for their age but if a parent doesn't mid them reading it then why restrict them to not letting them read it. you have to ask yourself, do i want to have more control of what my students can and can't read or should they have the right to read what they want in school.